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The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Nominated author of Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, took some time after her speech on the Brandeis Institute of Investigative Journalisms Day of Innocence to speak with David Pepose of The Hoot. David Pepose: What do you think was your highest and your lowest points throughout your exploits with […]
Last week, Brandeis Softball won four out of seven games over a four day period. The stretch started off with road games against Worcester State on Thursday and Saint Josephs College on Friday before returning to host Trinity on Saturday and Husson College for a double-header on Sunday.
Five members of the Brandeis baseball squad were selected to the UAA All-Conference teams. Phil Aurigemma 06 and Zach Golden 06 were selected to the All-UAA first team, while junior Ben Dashefsky 07, Tim Dunphy 06 and Chuck Sheehan 08 were named to the All-UAA second team. This is even more good news for the Judges, whom as of Wednesday, are 10-5.
Gosman Gymnasium was graced by Basketball Hall-of-famers Dave Cowens and Bill Laimbeer last weekend, as well as Alex-Celtic M.L. Carr and the diminutive Muggsey Bogues.
All streaks come to an end at some point, as it did for mens tennis on the road trip. What few expected was for tennis to fall with a thud on the road swing, losing all three road matches against Bates, Colby and finally Bowdoin.
Brandeis Womens Rugby kicked off the season last Saturday at home against Bowdoin. In a hard-fought battle, the undermanned and under-experienced Brandeis team could not keep up with the Polar Bears as they fell, 63-0.
With another serve, forehand, backhand, and overhead, the Brandeis Womens Tennis team won another two matches this past week, launching another successful spring tennis season. Though the team was 1-1 for the season, they kicked their game up a notch, seizing a 7-2 home win against Babson last Thursday and a 6-3 victory away at Bates last Saturday. Despite losing to Colby on Sunday, April 2, the team refuses to lose momentum. Gabrielle Helfgott 09 explained, Matches are getting harder, and we have a long road ahead of us. This loss is just a lesson to reinforce what our team needs to improve on. Were a strong team, and well continue forward with a positive attitude and confidence.
Baseball
Cleveland's C.C. Sabathia was placed on the DL after straining an oblique muscle on Opening Day.
Are you afraid of the real world? I mean the world outside of the sheltered college environment? Are you even sure it exists in the first place? If you arent, then youre probably a very heavy drinker. This is a good thing, mostly because while sober and about to graduate, you tend to stay up nights wondering, thinking, fearing in the abysmal depths of insecurity who, once you are no longer in college, is going to feed you, fill up the toilet paper spindle, call facilities, cancel Modfest, or unlock your dorm room when you leave the keys inside and your roommate is in a different country because hes an international student who had to rush home because of a coup in Zimbabwe? The answers to all these questions can be found at the bottom of a Bacardi 151 bottle. However, you might not be cognizant enough at that point to understand them, and youll probably be pretty flammable by then as well.
Fun;
its a word that elicits memories of joyous occasions, be they some uproarious party whose hangover passed months ago or even a nice day on the town. While one can hopefully associate such an ideal to his life, the word is unfortunately left out of much of the music thats being produced and distributed today. Sure, those random pop songs of the week may have provided for a few sweet minutes of amusement at some random party;
yet, outside of that context, these songs are nothing more than arbitrary conglomerate products as empty and soulless as any attempt made at making these songs have some significant musical grounding. In the almost absolute absence of music that contains an audacious sense of humor, fun, and irony abound, rock n roll revivalists (in every sense of the phrase) Eagles of Death Metal emerge from the pit of doom and gloom to provide a hip shaking, heart pounding, and fun time.
